Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-04
QUEER DISHES FROM ALL LANDS

|QUEER DISHES FROM ALL LANDS.
Bears Paws, Elephants' Feet. Deer's Noses,
and Odd Parts of Other Animals.
The New-Brunswickers find special
charm in the loose nose of the moose
deer, says Household Words. Sharks
fins and fish-maws, unmatched ducks
aud chickens, sea-slugs, and birds nests
are all priced by the omniyorous
Chinese. The Parisians eat horse
flesh; and at the exhibition of 1851. q
M. Brocchieri showed and sold deli
cious cakes, patties, and bon-bons of
bullock's blood, rivaling the famous
marrons glaces Of the confseries of the
boulevards. This seems almost tri-
! umph of art In Havana the shark is
openly sold in the market, and the
Chinese ascribe special invigorating
virtues to its fins and tail The Gold
Coast negroes are all fond of sharks as
they are of hippopotami and alligators,
and the Pylynesians are also very fond
of sharks flesh, quite raw.
Caymans and crocodiles, lizards and
frogs are all eaten and enjoyed by GER
tain people. The typical crocodile. is
like veal; but some species have .
strong flavor of musk, and some are
like young, juicy pork, while others re-
| semble lobster. Others, again, have q
powerful fishy taste, very disagreeable.
On the whole, therefore, crocodile is
uncertain eating, and not to be ventured
on with rashness. Alligator is CUP
posed to be invigorating and restofa-
tive, and at Manila is sold at high
prices, the Chinese clutching at the
dried skin, which they use in their
awful messes of gelatinous soup. ALI
gator is likened to sucking pig, but its
eggs have musty flavor.
The French are VIGOROUSLY addicted
to frogs, which command high price
IN New York also, where they sell the
large bullfrog, sometimes weighing half
. pound, as well as the tender little
green animal (rana esculenta), whose
hind legs taste so like delicate chicken
when served with white sauce in restau-
rants and hotels of Paris and Vienna
OF course, frogs do not escape the
Chinese, who devour everything with
blood and fiber; and the negroes of
Surinam eat the loathsome Surinam
toad. Monkeys are also considered
good eating in some countries. African
epicures are never more charmed than
when they can dine off q highly-sea-
soned, tender young monkey, baked
gypsy fashion in the earth. The great
red monkey, the black spider monkey,
and the bowling monkey are all eaten
by the various peoples among whom
they are found. The flesh of the monkey
is said to be both nutritious and
pleasant.
One species of bat is considered good
eating by the natives of the islands of
the Indian archipelago, Malabar, etc. !;
it is called by naturalists the edible
bat, and it is said to be white, tender,
and delicate; but for all that, it is 3
hideous beast, like weasel, with ten
inch body, covered with close and shin
ing black hair, and with four.foot
wings, when stretched to their full ex-
tent.
In some countries even the fox is
considered delicacy; in the arctic re-
gions, where fresh meat is scarce, when
judiciously made into q pie it is con-
sideled equal to any rabbit, under the
same conditions, ever bred on the
Sussex downs. But, strange to say, the
Esquimau dogs, which will devour al
most everything else, will not touch fox.
Cats and dogs readily find purchasers
and consumers in China, where they
are hung up in the butchers shops, to-
gether with badgers-tasting like wild
boar-and other oddities of food.
In the South seas, too, q dog is a
favorite dish, and a puppy stew is a
royal feast in Zanzibar; but it is only
fair to say that where dog is eaten it is
especially fattened for the table and
fed only on milk and such like clearly
diet. The Australian native dog or
dingo is eaten by the blacks, but by no
one else; and South African will give
a COW for a good-sized mastiff.
Elephants feet, picked in strong
toddy vinegar and cayenne pepper, are
considered in Ceylon an Apician luxury.
The trunk is said to resemble buffalo's
hump, and the fat is so highly priced
by the bushmen that they will go al
most any distance for it. Hippopotamus
fat is also considered treat; when
sailed it is thought superior to our best
breakfast bacon, and the flesh is both
palatable and nutritious, the fat being
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